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    Dear Lord God,

10 years from now, I hope and pray that I’m working as a successful nurse in a good hospital in Canada or in the States. I hope I’m halfway in buying my family the great big dream house that they want, the car that they’ve wished to ride in, the life that they never had before. I hope I’d remain single knowing that You’re the companion that would never leave me alone. I hope I could earn and save a lot for the future life that I dreamed of having…the adventures that I wanted to experience, most of all the service that I wanted to give to those who need it most in any part of this world for the sake of my heart’s content and happiness and mostly Your purpose of spreading the love to Your children who barely feel it in this cold world…to return the endless blessings, kindness and mercy that You have given me despite everything I’ve done wrong.

20 years from now, I hope and pray I was able to show my family how much I love them, and give them their desires of comfort in this life as I have dreamt for them. Having them sleep in a bed with soft pillows and sheets…have them eat in a table that allows them to share a gracious meal together…have them walk through shiny marble floors or soft carpets…have them go to places that they could only dream of going…while they’re learning to be thankful of the blessings that You gave and remembering that once we didn’t have it at all. I hope my mother and father would find contentment and peace. I hope my brothers are working hard to make sure that they could provide for their own family and making sure that they live according to Your teachings and words. I hope my sisters could find good jobs and meet good and honorable men with Your will Lord. I hope we’re still together giving each other the support and love a family’s supposed to, in times of need and whatever hardships that this fruitful life gives. I hope each and every one of us learn from it…seeing each as a nugget of gold in a pile of rocks. Help us Lord to see the good in what’s bad…the better in what seems worse…the beauty in things that seemed to be deprived of it.

In Your time oh Lord, may I be able to give it back to You. Please let me be of service to Your people, not only in my homeland but elsewhere. Although I haven’t attained as much enlightenment, I’d try my best to let them also feel Oh Lord that every single obstacle is a lesson, every single pain is a gift and that all of us may realize that no riches or wealth that we desire in this world could ever be at par to the one that awaits us in Your kingdom. I beg You dear God, for this is what my soul deeply yearns and what my heart truly desires.AMEN

-Tasha